In 1906, one of SFO”s Japanese immigrant families moved to the Palos Verdes Peninsula. The Ishibashis leased land and built the first farm in the area. They made a living with their roadside fruit, vegetable and flower stand. My husband’s parents who lived in Palos Verdes frequently bought from them.
In 1942, fear of US Japanese residents caused the FBI to arrest the father who was sent him to an internment camp in North Dakota. Next, the rest of the family were rounded up and put into an Arizona internment camp.
After the war, they were released, and each person was given $25 (less then $500 in today’s money) and a one-way bus ticket back to the city where they had been arrested.
When the ishibashis returned to Palos Verdes, their home had been demolished and their land leases had been terminated.
But, instead of giving up, they rebuilt. The ishibashi family kept the stand until 2012
And regarding the question and the subtitle of the image, I did. When I lived in Palos Verdes in 2002 and again in 2005, I visited Annie’s.
